Over the past decade, it appears that Dick Cheney has taken over the Democratic Party. In what would have been considered unthinkable even a few years ago, the Democrats announced themselves as the party for foreign wars by having Liz Cheney join Kamala Harris on stage in Wisconsin for a rally.
Politico wrote:
In Ripon, Wisconsin, the sentimental birthplace of the GOP, Kamala Harris hit the campaign trail with Liz Cheney on Thursday in what marked the vice president’s highest-profile attempt yet to woo non-MAGA Republicans.
The California liberal and Wyoming conservative agree on little besides their view that former President Donald Trump is a threat to democracy who shouldn’t return to the White House after the Jan. 6 riot at the Capitol. At Ripon College, in a small city where a group of Whigs, Free Soilers and Democrats met in 1854 to form a new party, calling themselves Republicans, Cheney said she would vote for a Democrat for the first time in her life to stop Trump.
Harris has made a sustained effort to attract disenchanted Republicans. Her team is airing ads featuring endorsements from former Trump supporters, one of whom said in a spot that “Jan. 6 was a wake-up call for me.” Conservative surrogates are also fanning out across the country this week at campaign events for Harris.
Harris’ path to victory in November may hinge on college-educated and suburban voters, including at least some disaffected Republicans. Those voters could be all the more critical amid signs of softening support for Harris among working-class voters, including the announcement Thursday that the firefighters union, an early backer of President Joe Biden in 2020, would not endorse a candidate for the White House. The Teamsters also said recently it would withhold its support.
In early September, former Vice President endorsed Kamala Harris, saying that Trump “can never be trusted with power again.”
“In our nation’s 248-year history, there has never been an individual who is a greater threat to our republic than Donald Trump,” Cheney said in a statement. “He tried to steal the last election using lies and violence to keep himself in power after the voters had rejected him. He can never be trusted with power again.”
“As citizens, we each have a duty to put country above partisanship to defend our Constitution. That is why I will be casting my vote for Vice President Kamala Harris,” he concluded.
On Thursday, Kamala Harris praised Cheney:
Kamala Harris to Liz Cheney: ‘I also want to thank your father, Vice President Dick Cheney, for his support and what he has done to serve our country.’
— Charlie Spiering (@charliespiering) October 3, 2024
In 2007, Democrats tried to impeach Dick Cheney and in 2014, Nancy Pelosi said that Cheney pushed the CIA to “torture” and that “he’s proud of it.”
